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The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)
May
6
Tweedledee (Harry Earles), Hercules (Victor McLaglen), and Echo – The Ventriloquist (Lon Chaney). DP: David Kesson.
“It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!”
– Echo
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Bed Peace [John and Yoko: The Bed-In] (John Lennon + Yoko Ono, 1969)
May
05
1969
Someone holds up a letter with John in the background who takes an amused drag from his cigarette. DP: Nicholas D. Knowland.
“on the fifth of May, Lisa[?] Minelli makes the bed.”
– John Lennon
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Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)
May
5
1945
Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš.
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My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)
May
5
Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.
– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion?
– You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!
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Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)
May
03
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Goya 3 de mayo [Goya, May 3rd] (Carlos Saura, 2021)
May
3
1808
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Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)
May
2
A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts “Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]“. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.
“With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…”
– Fontaine
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Normalsatz [Ordinary Sentence] (Heinz Emigholz, 1982)
Apr
30
1975
A woman, seated on a bed, speaks to a second woman who is pressed against the side of a bookcase. Still via. DP: Heinz Emigholz.
Part of the Trilogie der Siebziger Jahre (“Trilogy of the Seventies”).
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The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)
Apr
29
The menacing Mocata (Charles Gray). DP: Arthur Grant.
– Do you realise what today's date is, Rex?
– April the, er, 29th, why?
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重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
Apr
28
8:59
A flipclock. It's April 28, a Friday, and 8:59 pm. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau.
“We broke up on April's fools day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humor her for a month.”
– He Zhiwu, Cop 223
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